For decades, scientists have worked to map the universe’s large-scale structure, testing cosmological models and ...

Among the early Maya, the site of Aguada Fénix would have been a place for everyone to gather for trade, socialization, and ...

A massive platform hidden in a southern Mexico jungle for 3,000 years actually is a giant map of the Maya order of the universe.

Scientists have found a vast megastructure in space that appears to challenge our understanding of the universe. The ultra-large structure of galaxies – named the Big Ring, and stretching 1.3 billion ...

Researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present computer simulations that capture the complex dynamics of elusive neutrinos left over from the Big Bang Current simulations of cosmic structure ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

An impression of the large-scale structure of the universe, showing galaxy clusters and superclusters arranged in long filaments and concentrated at nodes. Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via ...

A team of astronomers led by Nikhil Padmanabhan and David Schlegel has published the largest three-dimensional map of the universe ever constructed, a wedge-shaped slice of the cosmos that spans a ...

Velocity streamlines within the reconstructed volume, with colored envelopes associated with the prominent nearby basins of attraction. The map and streamlines have been cropped to the region covered ...

An artistic impression of what the Big Ring (shown in blue) and Giant Arc (shown in red) would look like in the sky. Credit: Stellarium An artistic impression of what the Big Ring (shown in blue) and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a colossal Maya cosmogram at Aguada Fenix, which serves as a 3,000-year-old map of the universe ...

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